Originally Posted by
racemey
Another general question: Any of you Mesaba pilots commute from the West Coast? I live in Sacramento which has 2 daily nonstops on NWA to MSP and a few nonstops on Fedex to MEM, so I am hoping for either of those.
You should strongly consider MEM over MSP. There are a couple of reasons I think this. There are more options to MEM via FedEx than MSP on NWA. Even if there were equal flights, jumping on FedEx is a much nicer experience than slugging it out with the silver elites at NWA. At FedEx, you are assigned a seat (that fully reclines) that is yours, no space available like NWA. Also in MEM you will have better relative seniority than MSP which means you'll be able to hold a line sooner and have a better QOL in MEM. And you should be able to hold MEM in either aircraft right out of training. Here's a list of the daily flights on FedEx. Let me know if you need the 1-800 number to list yourself on FedEx.
FLIGHTS FROM SMF TO MEM
Non-Stop Flights
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FLT# ORIGIN DEP-DATE (Zulu DEP-TIME DEST ARR-DATE (Zulu) ARR-TIME A/C
1229 SMF 03/28/2008 19:07L (02:07Z) MEM 03/28/2008 12:43L (05:43Z) DC10-30
0802 SMF 03/28/2008 06:02L (13:02Z) MEM 03/28/2008 11:42L (16:42Z) MD-11
0463 SMF 03/28/2008 06:52L (13:52Z) MEM 03/28/2008 00:28L (17:28Z) DC10-30